Education is the key to health and fitness. You cannot expect to become healthy and fit without educating yourself on how to achieve health and fitness. Education is an on going process throughout your life to learn how to become fit, lose and maintain weight, eat right, etc. To achieve the greatest possible benefits to your health and fitness, there is no substitute for your own education.

To avoid incorrect or false information on health and fitness issues, you need to be careful where you get your information from. Here are a few guidelines to help you avoid false or incorrect claims:


-they make claims that people want to hear, but are too good to be true.
-they offer alternatives that have not been proven safe or effective by scientists.
-they use testimonies, case histories, and subjective evidence to justify their claims.


You can obtain good information from your doctor, fitness trainer, professional nutritionist, local gym, books and tapes written by professionals, etc.

Setting and keeping of goals are vital for obtaining better health and fitness. They should cover long term to short term (daily activities) objectives. They should be specific and realistic with a time line for completion. To increase your chances of completing your goals, you should tell someone who will motivate and check up on your progress. This can be your doctor, local gym, fitness trainer. They can give you the motivation and positive encouragement you need. Also realistic incremental changes to your habits are easier and tend to be more permanent.